Your Lack Of Sleep Is Not Helping You Make Any Friends

Here's evidence that getting your beauty sleep isn't just a cliche: Sleep loss can make you appear less approachable to people, according to a new study. Researchers examined how strangers reacted to 25 men and women after only four hours of sleep and after the recommended eight hours. They found that the less sleep a person got, the less inclined strangers were to socialize with the person. The study volunteers were first asked to sleep eight hours for two consecutive nights. A week later, the participants were asked to get two consecutive nights of bad rest, where they only slept four hours or fewer. The subjects wore sleep monitors to track their rest and were photographed without makeup after each experiment. They were not told what the purpose of the study was or what the photos were measuring. A group of 122 strangers then observed the photos. The strangers were asked if they would socialize with the person featured in the image. They were also instructed to rate the participants in the images based on attractiveness, sleepiness, trustworthiness and whether or not they looked healthy.  Unsurprisingly, the study participants got poorer results in their sleepy photos. Not only were strangers more likely to answer that they didn’t want to socialize with a tired participant, the strangers also rated the volunteers lower in attractiveness and they perceived the sleepy participants to be less healthy. (There was no significant change in trustworthine...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news